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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. use the twoside option (and include a copyright page; N.B. a fellow grad student who has no copyright page did not experience this problem)

What is the expected output?

The output should be similar to the default (oneside) except the larger margin should alternate between left side and right side of page.

What do you see instead?

This works as expected except for one problem, which throws off the alternating of the large margin for all pages after page 2. In my dissertation, the twoside option adds an extra page after the title page with nothing on it except an arabic number 2. The next page after this is the copyright page, which is labelled (as it should be) with roman numeral ii.

What version of the product are you using?

2.0.0

On what operating system?

Linux (Ubuntu 11.10)

Please provide any additional information below.

I found that if I replace each occurrence in uhthesis.cls of \cleardoublepage with \clearpage, the problem goes away. However, this won't work if I switch back to the default oneside option, so I've added an ifthenelse satement to fix it. I'm attaching my modified uhthesis class file, in case anyone wants to see it and/or use/adapt it.

DISCLAIMER: please note that I have also made a few other customizations of the uhthesis.cls file, which work for my thesis but may not work for yours! Namely I have

1. modified the appearance of the title to conform more closely with the example provided in the UH style guide -- page 19 of
   http://manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/files/forms/tdstylepolicy_e.pdf
2. Added commands for "List of Symbols" and "List of New Results," both of which are important for math dissertations. (I initially just inserted these lists by hand, but then the page numbers don't get roman numerals, even if I had them before the \end{frontmatter} command.)
3. (As mentioned above) changed all occurrences of \cleardoublepage with an ifthenelse which chooses \clearpage instead when the twoside option is used.

Remark about item 2 above:
Of course, these new lists are not automatically generated (since LaTeX doesn't know which results are new) but you can take a look at my LaTeX source file, attached, if you want to see how I'm using the \listofsymbols and \listofnewresults commands. N.B. this attached .tex file will not compile without other supporting files. These can be found at arXiv.org, or by emailing me.)

If you want to see how my modified title page and the new lists look, my dissertation can be viewed here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17739547/diss/PhD_2012_DeMeo.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17739547/diss/PhD_2012_DeMeo_TwoSided.pdf

Attachments can be found in this gist

Requested by Andrea Napolitano. Should be straightforward :)